{"id":150,"date":"2013-10-17T20:45:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T20:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=150"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:19:37","slug":"doyle-moores-autoharp-loan-campus-folksong-club-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2013\/10\/17\/doyle-moores-autoharp-loan-campus-folksong-club-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Doyle Moore&#8217;s Autoharp on Loan for Campus Folksong Club Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4318\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Doyles-Autoharp-768x1024-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4318\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Doyles-Autoharp-768x1024-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Doyles-Autoharp-768x1024-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Doyles-Autoharp-768x1024-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doyle&#8217;s Autoharp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christine Breen, long-time friend and colleague of Doyle Moore, founding member of the University of Illinois\u2019 Campus Folksong Club, loaned Moore\u2019s colorfully decorated autoharp to the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music for its special two-month exhibition, \u201cArchie Green and the Campus Folksong Club,\u201d which will open in the University Library\u2019s Marshall Gallery on November 1, 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the staff was cleaning and preparing the instrument for installation, they discovered a rattle snake rattle had been placed inside of the instrument.\u00a0 Talking with Christine this afternoon about this unusual discovery, she said that old-time fiddlers would often put rattle snake rattles inside of their fiddles to help make the instrument sound sweeter.\u00a0 Musicians have also said that because many old-time fiddlers would hang their instruments on a wall when it wasn\u2019t being played, the snake rattle was put inside the instrument to scare away spiders and mud daubers which might try to make a home inside the instrument.\u00a0 Others have suggested that when the musician played their fiddle, the rattle would vibrate and make a percussive sound which helped provide a special rhythmic pulse to the fiddle tune.\u00a0 Regardless of the explanation, all fiddlers agree that the snake rattle always provides good luck to the instrument and its player.\u00a0 While Doyle was predominantly an autoharp player, it is likely that he felt he and his instrument should possess the same good luck, and this is probably the reason why it was added by Moore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Breen, long-time friend and colleague of Doyle Moore, founding member of the University of Illinois\u2019 Campus Folksong Club, loaned Moore\u2019s colorfully decorated autoharp to the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music for its special two-month exhibition, \u201cArchie Green and the Campus Folksong Club,\u201d which will open in the University Library\u2019s Marshall Gallery on 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